We are here.

We did it.

Yes.

It's an early morning in a comedy club.

It is.

Exactly.

It's eerily quiet.

Yeah.

It's always strange to be in these places in the morning.

You're like, oh, this is what this looks like in the daylight.

Exactly.

I'm so grateful to have you on.

I'm just excited.

I feel like you, I told somebody last night that I was interviewing

you and they're like, she's an American hero. Oh my gosh. No. It's, I know you reached out to me.

It was probably a couple years ago at this point. And, you know, the timing just didn't work out.

You were still in L.A. at the time. And I know we'd tried a couple of times,

even just before you moved, I think. Yep. And then there was really there, there's been like for the last

year I've been living under the book publishers deadline world where at different times,

just like, oh my gosh, I've got to clear the whole calendar because I got to deliver it this by this time. It's the first time I've ever written a book. So it was

an interesting process. All of that is to say, thank you for your patience. Yeah. I'm glad we're

finally, you're doing this. You also, I think were, you were like an active duty too at some point.

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